The Power of the Dog Leads Online Association of Female Film Critics Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leads this year’s nominations from the Online Association of Female Film Critics with seven nods including Best Film. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast picked up five nominations, while Sian Heder’s CODA, Rebecca Hall’s Passing, Fran Kranz’s Mass, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick… BOOM!, and Julia Ducournau’s Titane all earned four nominations each.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on December 21, 2021.

Best Film
Belfast
CODA
Spencer
The Power Of The Dog
The Worst Person In The World

Best Director
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power Of The Dog
Julia Ducournau – Titane
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Best Male Lead
Nicolas Cage – Pig
Peter Dinklage – Cyrano
Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick…Boom!
Joaquin Phoenix – C’mon C’mon ​
Will Smith – King Richard

Best Female Lead
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person In The World
Agathe Rousselle – Titane
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Tessa Thompson – Passing

Best Supporting Male
Colman Domingo – Zola
Jason Isaacs – Mass
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Kodi Smith-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Female
Caitriona Balfe – Belfast
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Ann Dowd – Mass
Kirsten Dunst – The Power Of The Dog
Riley Keough – Zola

Best Acting Ensemble
Belfast
Mass
The French Dispatch
The Harder They Fall
The Power Of The Dog

Best Original Screenplay
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Julia Ducournau – Titane
Fran Kranz – Mass
Michael Sarnoski – Pig
Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt – The Worst Person In The World

Best Adapted Screenplay
Jane Campion – The Power Of The Dog
Maggie Gyllenhal – The Lost Daughter
Sian Heder – CODA
Steven Levenson – Tick, Tick…Boom!
David Lowery – The Green Knight

Best Documentary
Flee
Julia
Summer Of Soul
The Rescue
Val

Best Animated Feature
Belle
Flee
Luca
Raya And The Last Dragon
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Cinematography
Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Andrew Droz Palermo – The Green Knight
Greig Fraser – Dune
Claire Mathon – Spencer
Ari Wegner – The Power Of The Dog

Breakthrough Filmmaker
Maggie Gyllenhal – The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Natalie Morales – Language Lessons
Edson Oda – Nine Days
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby

Breakthrough Performance
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones – CODA
Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon
Agathe Rousselle – Titane
Saniyya Sidney – King Richard

The Rosie
The OAFFC’s signature award celebrates the film that “best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema.”
I’m Your Man
The Lost Daughter
Passing
Petite Maman
Shiva Baby

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.